Leather belts?

einsteinjon

einsteinjon

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So I just ordered my 2x42 Craftsman belt grinder and am going to load up on various belts from trugrit to see what works. I see they have a leather belt available http://trugrit.com/belts3.htm ...is it worth my time and money? What would it be used for other than sharpening? Is it even possible to put strop compound on a leather grinder belt? Do you use it to polish? etc. etc.

Thanks everyone! :thumbup:
 
einsteinjon said:
So I just ordered my 2x42 Craftsman belt grinder and am going to load up on various belts from trugrit to see what works. I see they have a leather belt available http://trugrit.com/belts3.htm ...is it worth my time and money? What would it be used for other than sharpening? Is it even possible to put strop compound on a leather grinder belt? Do you use it to polish? etc. etc.

Thanks everyone! :thumbup:
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Yes. You can put some white rouge or something along those lines on the belt to aid in stropping the burr off.

You can also do this with a leather belt and some rouge manually without the fancy smancy stuff ! :D

I don't know how much knowledge you have using a strop on a machine, but make sure you have the edge pointed in the same direction as the belt is running or you
will have a nasty experience and the belt might come apart on you.
 
I'm sure you'll get replies contrary to mine, but I'm sure I can manually strop the blade in less time that it takes to change the belt on that machine.
So for what it takes to make a manual strop, I would say, no, it's not worth it to buy a leather belt.
 
Stropping belts are great, but are only for speed controlled units. They have to be run very slow. I took the heel of my palm off a few years back when the tip of a fillet knife caught on one ( I was running it too fast). I would not use one on your unit.
Stacy
 
rayban said:
I'm sure you'll get replies contrary to mine, but I'm sure I can manually strop the blade in less time that it takes to change the belt on that machine.
So for what it takes to make a manual strop, I would say, no, it's not worth it to buy a leather belt.
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It takes me 5-10secs to change a belt, you must have really fast hands, I like a very polished edge, I like mirror polishes on my edge, for the polished edge I get from 30secs of power stropping it takes me 5-10minutes from hand stropping.
 
That's kind of what I was thinking...a little more control with a hand strop would probably be my best bet for now.
 
it only takes less than 1 second to completely fudge something up BAD! Go the manual way ! Those leather belts are kinda expensive too !
 
Leu Custom said:
it only takes less than 1 second to completely fudge something up BAD! Go the manual way ! Those leather belts are kinda expensive too !
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That's only if you go edge into the belt, I've never done that, if you go edge into a leather strop you'll ruin the strop aswell, it's only 15-20bucks, no more than store bought strops.
 
A leather belt would be good to have I bought a paper wheel system but a leather belt would work excellent to sharpen you knife you will need to work the rouge into the leather a fair amount befor it will work perfect. kellyw
 
I rubbed in a good amount of neetsfoot oil into the leather strop I made and it takes the compound really well after that. My strop is a 2' hunk of leather glued to a 1x4.
 
Take a old fine grit j-flex belt and turn in inside out and rouge it up. Works great snd cheap.
 
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